het uitgestrekte land [ this vast land]

Cees Franke is a driven and passionate human being. As well as having built up years of experience in photography, design and communication, in 2004 and 2005 he completed the courses on Picture Communication and Documentary Director at the Media Academy (formerly the Sandberg Institute) in Hilversum. Since 1983, he has worked as a freelance designer, photographer and communication consultant, and since 2005 as a film maker. As secretary of the stichting platVorm (since 1996), together with Rien Bonte, writer and lecturer in Dutch, between 1996 and 1998 he was publisher and editor-in-chief of the regional magazine for culture and the arts, platVorm.In 2009, he surrendered control of his design and communication firm, and decided to dedicate himself entirely to film and photography. The film ‘Het Uitgestrekte Land’ is the first free production to emerge from this decision. He also has plans for more films combining music and livepage.apple.compictures. Alongside film making, his other passion is photography. There are already plans for a number of books of photographs. The central theme in his free work is the confrontation that takes place in the mind of the person observing the work, more specifically the themes of time and time perception.